A judge decided Thursday to keep a 26-year-old man in jail on a charge that he murdered his estranged wife, though no body has been found and the woman told family members she wanted to leave Las Vegas.
A pre-speech video that featured North Las Vegas Mayor Shari Buck as a business suit-clad gardener literally planting a “seed of hope” outside City Hall set the tone for her first State of the City address Thursday.
The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation is looking for unsung heroes.
Las Vegans gave more money to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, and at a faster pace, than they are so far to Haiti earthquake victims.
So far, the ranching business has not been kind to the Southern Nevada Water Authority. During the past fiscal year, the authority lost more than $628,000 on its collection of working ranches in eastern White Pine County, and officials expect to lose at least $200,000 more this fiscal year.
Nevada televisions, newspapers and radios will no doubt be flooded with even more political ads during the 2010 election season thanks to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.
WASHINGTON — Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman sought updates from Nevada lawmakers on Thursday on efforts by Congress to attack the jobs and housing crises in Southern Nevada.
Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer on Tuesday made it clear Las Vegas was merely a bit player in the roundup of 21 business executives in connection with an FBI undercover sting.
In four days, an El Niño weather system has dropped more rain on the Las Vegas Valley than the area saw all of last year and topped it off with a little snow. Thursday saw the worst of it as downpours harassed motorists, closed intersections and delayed or canceled flights out of McCarran International Airport.
The film world has its Oscars, television its Emmys. From Broadway’s Tonys to music’s Grammys, a variety of awards honor outstanding artistic achievements. And now, Las Vegas’ Rainbow Company youth theater has its own national accolade: the Medallion Award from the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America.
A lawsuit was filed against Cox Communications Wednesday by a man who claims he was hit in the head with a gun and robbed by a man claiming to be a Cox technician.
Police this week corrected accounts of a shootout that left a shotgun-wielding assailant and a security officer dead and a U.S. marshal wounded at a federal courthouse in downtown Las Vegas more than two weeks ago.
Valley residents consumed less water in 2009 than in any year for the past decade. Just don’t ask water managers to tell you why.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid met Thursday with Sen.-elect Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican whose election this week has changed the course of Congress.
Garrick Brown told a judge Wednesday he hoped someday his family will forgive him.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dina Titus says she has a “better appreciation” of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan after visiting there last weekend to learn more about the war.
Caña Latin Kitchen & Bar has opened at Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Specializing in small plates including ceviche, (scallop ceviche with mango, mint and pomegranate seeds; mushroom ceviche with lemon, orange and truffle oil) plus sugar-cane-based spirits and South American wines and beers, it’s open from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily. Call 722-6060 or visit www.CanaLasVegas.com. …
The life of comedian Kathleen Madigan is bizarre enough to be turned into an HBO comedy co-starring her friends Lewis Black, Carrot Top, Ron White, Dr. Phil and Larry the Cable Guy.
The band’s buoyant, dimension-less pop works in both discotheques and dive bars. Phoenix’s latest record, “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix,” finds the group tightening the screws on its sound.
Las Vegas’ Playboy Club possesses all sorts of amenities that distinguish it from other nightclubs around town.
On Jan. 29 and February 5, the Hard Rock Hotel will be drawing for a big screen TV, Pink Taco catering for up to 15 people, free play and a VIP Super Bowl party. Players can earn entries Monday through Jan. 29 and Jan. 30-Feb. 5. Winners must be present at the 7 p.m. drawings.
LEGION: In this futuristic chiller, the archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) teams up with some folks at an isolated desert diner to battle for humanity’s survival. Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson and Kate Walsh co-star for visual effects veteran-turned-director Scott Stewart (“Iron Man,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”). At multiple locations. (100 min.) R; strong bloody violence, profanity.
Michael Laygo, in a gleaming white blazer, sings “The Impossible Dream” and stretches “the un-r-e-a-c-h-able star” until the audience can hold its breath no more.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
MISS AMERICA COMPETITION
There she’ll be, Miss America, no doubt with a plan to deflect questions about gay marriage. The preliminaries run from 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday in the Theatre for the Performing Arts at Planet Hollywood, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Tickets are $75. (The big show is at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 30. Tickets are $150.) Call 785-5000.
The Blue Man Group founders often quote Penn & Teller’s Penn Jillette, who once told them, “You guys did the one thing we never could: You were able to clone yourselves.”
An inspirational, fact-based drama that simply radiates nobility, “Extraordinary Measures” ranks as a very nice movie — sometimes too nice for its own good.
“Las Vegas has become such an international community that you really don’t have to go outside Las Vegas to find fabulous artists representing virtually every cultural community on Earth — they are here,” says Patrick Gaffey, cultural program specialist for Clark County, about the globe-spanning World Vibration concert series at the Winchester Cultural Center.